Good evening.

There's breaking news from President Joe Biden who's overseas about what he thinks

the consequences of his predecessors hold on the Republican Party and the fascinating

and very public back and forth he's having with Russia's president Vladimir Putin before

the two meet face to face in less than two days.

Ahead of that meeting, the president's day talked about the threats and democracies

around the world, sometimes from within and what he called phony populism.

To the world and to our own people that democracy can still prevail against the challenges

of our time and deliver for the needs of our people.

We have to root out corruption that siphons off our strength guard against those who would

stoke hatred and division for political gain as phony populism.

Biden would return to that phrase phony populism just minutes later while delivering a blunt

reply to a reporter's question about allies who may still be rattled by the Capitol

riot and the whole of the former president still has on his party.

It is a shock and surprise that what's happened in terms of the consequence of President Trump's

phony populism has happened and it is disappointing that so many of my Republican colleagues in

the Senate who I know know better have been reluctant to take on, for example, an investigation

because they're worried about being primaries.

The president also gave his assessment of what he sees as the current political calculus

that the Republican party has quote vastly diminished in numbers and quote also that party

leadership is in his words fractured.

But while the president spends much of his days with allies, sources tell CNN his

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